Sentence examples for administer a scolding from inspiring English sources
They also complain that, when faced with domestic violence, these councils merely administer a scolding or prescribe an "anger-management" course, rather than the safe house and prosecution that the state-run system should offer.Still, British sharia arbitrators may alleviate a peculiarly British woe.
Singing, "Don't you know, little fool, you never can win," in "I've Got You Under My Skin," she administered a tart scolding to herself.
He and his colleagues in the tongue inevitably make a certain amount of currency ("five dollars") sound like a scolding administered to a Texas city ("fie, Dallas").
She is the queen of the cautionary tale and practically an agony aunt when it comes to dispensing relationship advice, but she should be approached with caution unless you want a scolding administered along with tissues and gin.
AS RECENTLY as 2009, the football authorities in Brazil got a scolding from FIFA, the body which administers soccer worldwide, because Brazilian players were in the habit of proclaiming their religious faith in spectacular ways.
That prompted a scolding from the OAS.
Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827), The Coblers Cure for a Scolding Wife, 1813.
Girardi saw Steinbrenner and cringed, expecting a scolding.
(He got a scolding from Satten).
It also features many a scolding.
Had I just received a scolding aid?
